[PDF] Health And Health Care In Northern Canada eBook

Author : Rebecca Schiff
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 38,72 MB
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Canada, Northern
ISBN : 1487521790

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Accounting for almost two thirds of the country's land-mass, Northern Canada is a vast region, host to rich natural resources and a diverse cultural heritage shared across Indigenous and non-indigenous residents. In this book, Rebecca Schiff and Helle M ller analyse health and healthcare in Northern Canada from a perspective that acknowledges the unique strengths, resilience, and innovation of northerners, while also addressing the challenges aggravated by contemporary manifestations of colonialism. Old and new forms of colonial programs and policies continue to create health and healthcare disparities in the North, which has had a profound impact on northerners. Divided into three sections, Health and Healthcare in Northern Canada paints a broad picture of primary issues that northern peoples face. Several chapters are written by northerners and utilize case studies, quotes, photographs, and other materials to highlight voices and perspectives of people living in northern Canada. In order to maintain resilience, improve the positive outcomes of health determinants, and diminish negative stereotypes, we must ensure that northerners - and their cultures, values, strengths and leadership - are at the centre of the ongoing work to achieve social justice and health equity.

Author : Rebecca Schiff (Professor of public health)
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 10,72 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Canada, Northern
ISBN : 9781487514600

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Accounting for almost two thirds of the country's land-mass, Northern Canada is a vast region, host to rich natural resources and a diverse cultural heritage shared across Indigenous and non-indigenous residents. In this book, Rebecca Schiff and Helle Møller analyse health and healthcare in Northern Canada from a perspective that acknowledges the unique strengths, resilience, and innovation of northerners, while also addressing the challenges aggravated by contemporary manifestations of colonialism. Old and new forms of colonial programs and policies continue to create health and healthcare disparities in the North, which has had a profound impact on northerners. Divided into three sections, Health and Healthcare in Northern Canada paints a broad picture of primary issues that northern peoples face. Several chapters are written by northerners and utilize case studies, "es, photographs, and other materials to highlight voices and perspectives of people living in northern Canada. In order to maintain resilience, improve the positive outcomes of health determinants, and diminish negative stereotypes, we must ensure that northerners - and their cultures, values, strengths and leadership - are at the centre of the ongoing work to achieve social justice and health equity.

Author : Judith C. Kulig
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 15,44 MB
Release : 2011-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0774821752

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Health research in Canada has mostly focused on urban areas, often overlooking the unique issues faced by Canadians living in rural and remote areas. This volume provides the first comprehensive overview of the state of rural health and health care in Canada, from coast to coast and in northern communities. Three themes are highlighted: rural places matter to health, rural places are unique, and rural places are dynamic. The contributors bring insights and methodologies from nursing, social work, geography, epidemiology, and sociology and from community-based research to a full spectrum of topics: health literacy, rural health care delivery and training, Aboriginal health, web-based services and their application, rural palliative care, and rural health research and policy. Taken together, these wide-ranging and multifaceted explorations of the dynamic relationship between health and place offer researchers and policy-makers, students and practitioners a valuable resource for understanding the special, ever-changing needs of rural communities.

Author : Gregory P. Marchildon
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,50 MB
Release : 2021-04-21
Category : Health care reform
ISBN : 1487508085

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This book provides insight into how the Canadian health care system is financed and organized, how it has evolved over time, and how well it performs relative to peer countries.

Author : Canada. Northern Health Service
Publisher :
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 16,18 MB
Release : 1971*
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN :

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Overviews the history of health services in the Northwest and Yuko.

Author : Malcolm G. Taylor
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 15,31 MB
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1469610264

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Taylor gives a brief history, geared specifically to an American audience, of the evolution of the Canadian national health insurance system from the 1940s to the late 1980s. He describes the two Canadian programs -- hospital insurance and medical insurance -- and discusses the major changes in the programs since they were implemented. Originally published in 1990. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Arnold Bennett
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 15,49 MB
Release : 1993-02-24
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN :

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In this book, a distinguished group of Canadian health care experts show us whatwe can learn from Canada's experience. They reveal a systemthat, unlike ours, provides high-quality care for nearly everybody, controls costs so that care remains affordable, and makes it responsive to the public will.

Author : Raisa Deber
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 26,83 MB
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1487513461

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Canada has been among the world leaders in recognizing the multiple factors that impact health. Focusing on Canada’s health care system, Raisa B. Deber provides brief descriptions of some key facts and concepts necessary to understand health care policy in Canada and place it in an international context. An accessible guide, Treating Health Care unpacks key concepts to provide informed discussions that help us understand and diagnose Canada’s health care system and to clarify which proposed changes are likely to improve it - and which are not. This book provides background information to clarify such concepts as: determinants of health; how health systems are organized and financed (including international comparisons); health economics; health ethics; and roles and responsibilities of different stakeholders, including government, providers, and patients. It then addresses some key issues, including equity, efficiency, access and wait times, quality improvement and patient safety, and coverage and payment models. Using analysis rather than advocacy, Deber provides a toolkit to help understand health care and health policy.

Author : David E. Young
Publisher : Canadian Circumpolar Institute
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 24,27 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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Collection of papers resulting from a workshop at the Knowing the North Conference which explore the rapidly-changing status of alternative medicine in Canada, new development in the evolving relationship between alternative medicine and the orthodox medical establishment, and changes occurring in health care delivery strategies in the North. Special attention is paid to the practice and efficacy of Native Indian medicine.